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Died. Sahebzadi Azam-Un-Nisa Begum Saheba, 65, first of the four wives (two still alive) of His Exalted Highness Osman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad, 72, often reputed to be the world's richest man (estimated assets: $1 to $2 billion), and mother of the Nizam's heir, Azam Jah, 48, Prince of Berar; in Hyderabad, India. In addition to his surviving wives, the Nizam has 42 women in his harem, 33 living children, 46 grandchildren...
Tomorrow is that special day on which the CRIMSON is not published and all America expresses its gratitude. How did it start? The best explanation yet offered is that news of the accession of Osman II to the Ottoman throne finally reached the Plymouth settlers on November 27, 1621, and they celebrated the event in the most appropriate fashion at their disposal...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
...determined effort to wipe out the rebellious Mohammedans in Sinkiang. Some 10,000 Kazaks were driven out of Barkol, high in the northeast. They fled southward. Some made their way across the frozen Himalayas to India. Some stayed to fight under the leadership of a tribal chieftain named Osman Bator who, singlehanded and armed only with outmoded equipment from China's Nationalists, declared war on the whole Soviet Union...
Over the Hills. Last year, with the Nationalists finally driven to the hills, the Russians widened the caravan trails through Sinkiang and brought their tanks and heavy artillery to bear on the Kazaks. In four battles, the rebellious tribesmen lost 3,000 killed. Osman was captured and killed. His 5,000-odd survivors split into groups and headed south. Last week, after months of agony, picking their way through uncharted passes across the highest mountains in the world, one party of 120 Kazak men, women & children reached the end of the trail-Mohammedan Kashmir and its "City...